Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

ISBN 10: 0253014697 / ISBN 13: 9780253014696

Published by Indiana University Press (USA), 2014

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pp. 496.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (USA)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253014697
• ISBN 13: 9780253014696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

About the Author

Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.

Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism whose most recent publications include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and a second revised edition of The Jews: A History.